How modern NVMe controllers finally killed the old-school SSD over-provisioning habit ...

This simple habit will increase your SSD's lifespan and maintain its performance.

Solid-state drives contain more NAND than is required to meet the listed capacity on the box. The reasoning for this is that the controller requires some of it for garbage collection and to replace ...

When an SSD is developed it will consist of standard memory chips. They come in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities. However, many Sandforce powered drives up until now typically use some of that storage ...

I've been doing some research on manual over-provisioning of SSD's and the attendant performance increases and reductions in write amplification that the procedure can provide, and was wondering if ...

Computex 2012 - Patriot had Wildfire Pro back on display at Computex 2012. This time we saw a working model, unlike at CES where a mock up was on display. Wildfire Pro brings back 28% over ...

In today's solid state drives, the NAND flash memory must be erased before it can store new data. In other words, data cannot be overwritten directly as it is in a hard disk drive. Instead, SSDs use a ...